FDNY widows mark 20-year anniversary of Queens fire that took their husbands

It’s been 20 years since the Father’s Day fire that ripped apart the lives of Mary Fahey, Denise Ford and Ann Downing.

The three women were never the same after June 17, 2001, when their firefighter husbands died during a massive blaze at a Queens hardware store, leaving their children without dads. Out of that unspeakable horror, the FDNY widows, Bravest in their own right, forged a bond that held them through the next two decades — and on Thursday, they will gather to mark the somber anniversary.